Shane is a younger and easily frightened kid in the neighborhood who pays two dollars to visit Greg and Rowley’s makeshift haunted house, which is actually the basement in Rowley’s house. Shane is terrified by the “Hall of Screams”—which involves Greg and Rowley screaming over and over again—and so hides under the bed and refuses to come out. Rowley’s dad then grounds Rowley, since he thinks the boys have been bullying Shane.